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February 20, 2018

Beware the “lovey dovey” words. Look to the actions and the facts

The misdirection and misinformation from WV GOP legislative leadership is frustrating.

Rather than recognize the importance of education and the very real needs of teachers, they try to demonize and sweet talk their very real and intentional disregard for the people who educate our children.

So let’s try to be inoculated against the weasel words.

Senate Minority Leader Ryan Ferns: The reality is, the plan that the Senate leadership passed, our plan results in between a 9 and 13 percent pay increase for teachers and public employees. (WVMetronews.com)

The Senate proposal is 1% for each of the next 5 years. That is based on average teacher salary which means all teachers get $404 the first year

That comes out to $404, the amount all teachers would receive, no matter how much they make or how long they have been in the system.

Most teachers are paid twice a month, so that boils down to nearly $17 extra a paycheck, or a total of $2,020 over five years.(WCHSTV.com)

Ferns tried to add the “step increases” into his figures-but those are already baked into the budget and aren’t new “raises”

Senate president Mitch Carmichael wants to continue the right wing dogma of helping big business and eventually it will trickle down

It is long past time in this state that we create a climate of growth, jobs and opportunity. So those things that are critical to the long-term success and restructuring of this economy are going to be — we have to find room for those things. We cannot eat our seed corn, so to speak. And that’s exactly what we’d be doing if we take our eye off restructuring this economy.

WVMetronews.com)

First—the philosophy has been tried and proven not to work. Over and over. Around the country AND in WV.